NationalOceans Month

Fun Facts

20th Century Sonar Mapping

Sonars are invented to help find submarines and map the ocean.

According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the oceans have around three million shipwrecks.

Pacific Ocean is wider than the Moon At its widest point, the Pacific Ocean from Indonesia to Colombia is wider than the Moon.

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